In the French language, AU Pair literally means “on a par” or “equal to”. It means that a person is taken into a household and treated as a big sister where you’re expected to do light household chores like cleaning, babysitting, doing the laundry, preparing meals, etc. This is in exchange for flight tickets, pocket money, your own private room, and free food (depending on the rules of the host country and host family).

In the first part of this article, we’ve mentioned the things we’ve done to earn money since leaving our corporate jobs and up until leaving Vietnam. Here in Part 2, we’ll show you more ways you can keep travelling and still earn money while you do it!